Word: affair
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Only a few weeks after the backstage sturm und drang of the Kathleen Battle affair, the Metropolitan Opera put an enthralling tempest where it belongs -- before an audience. The occasion was a spectacular new production of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Otello, in which astute direction, dazzling conducting and a first-rate cast led by Placido Domingo all combined to create a profound operatic experience...
Patsy Thomasson, once Arkansas highway commissioner and now director of the White House Office of Administration, has also managed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Like Kennedy, she was involved in the travel-office affair. A Little Rock investment group she headed has been caught up in a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a run-up in the price of the stock of a fisheries company just before it was acquired by Tyson Foods of Arkansas; Thomasson says she did no trading in the shares...
...bold attempt to contain the damage from the Whitewater affair, President Clinton went on the offensive at a nationally televised news conference to state that while he intended to cooperate "fully" with the special counsel and any congressional investigation, he also intended to stay "preoccupied with the business we were sent here to do for the American people." Responding to fresh allegations of wrongdoing -- leveled on the floor of the House by Republican Jim Leach -- the President categorically denied having tried to suppress a federal investigation of the S&L at the center of the Whitewater affair. To underline...
...Democratic National Committee spokeswoman: "You learn a lot about a person late at night on an airplane flying back to Little Rock, Arkansas, from New Hampshire." He also helped mold the reactive, counterpunching style that made Clinton victorious but appears to be misfiring when applied to the Whitewater affair...
...says Father Raymond E. Brown, author of The Death of the Messiah (Doubleday; 1,608 pages; $75), which re-examines this and dozens of other issues on the crucifixion. "Jesus was a Jew and he dealt with Jewish leaders. So the easy solution that it was an entirely Roman affair doesn't work." He argues, however, that careful examination of the Gospels can provide understanding, even enlightenment: "Christians have misused the crucifixion to blame Jews and to persecute Jews. Therefore, to many Jews the crucifixion is a horrible thing because they've been beaten over the head with...